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Sat. 2/9/13 11:44am
wendy del formaggio:
Haha. Hi lower-case Glenn (not to be confused with MY Glenn, who is in the picture to the left)! I've been busy trying to get my store re-opened (we had to relocate). Yeah, cheese gets stolen a lot, according to the Google news feed that comes to my email inbox.

Sat. 2/9/13 11:44am
Joe B:
second that on the amazing job by Gil and Glenn!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:45am
John V.:
Band sounds great Michael@!

Sat. 2/9/13 11:45am
wendy del formaggio:
Third that on the fine engineering by Gil and Glenn! What a nice, full sound.

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Sat. 2/9/13 11:48am
David in ATL from NJ:
Thanks for having the EC in Michael. Enjoying this very much.

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Sat. 2/9/13 11:48am
Stevel:
At the risk of being redundant: Listening a bit distractedly, I had no clue this was a live studio set. That's a pretty high production value.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:02pm
ChrisB:
Terrific live studio performance. Congrats to the engineers. And, Michael, you are spot on with the lack of irony and niceness. These guys were so joyful in their performance Thursday, it was even better than I had hoped (and I love the records, so had high expectations). Thanks for making the EC studio thing happen.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:15pm
Gaylord Fields:
@bruxx: But what about the fact that Tony Rivers and the Castaways rearrange the song so that it's no longer a Fake Beatles song but a Fake Beach Boys song?

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:16pm
Stevel:
glenn:If you like Damon Runyon, you should probably look up a book that documents the newspaper era he came from. Timberline/by Gene Fowler. Fowler was a contemporary of Runyon's. He tells the history of how the Denver Post was built via a merged effort of community need and hucksterism.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:17pm
Michael Shelley:
Gaylord - you are right - you turned me on to that song 20 years ago and I'll be forever grateful.

glenn: I'm picking up Runyon at the library tomorrow. Never read his stuff, except in pieces.

Sat. 2/9/13 12:18pm
scott:
The original version of "Girl Don't Tell Me" is one of the few Beach Boys tracks with no harmony vocals. So really Tony Rivers and the Castaways were just fixing it.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:19pm
EzSezz:
Every now and then Jonathan Schwartz interviews his old friend Carly Simon on air? Creeeepy.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:20pm
glenn:
didn't horace greeley start the denver post? i have a book which compiles runyon's articles from various trials he attended, as well as romance in the roaring forties, bloodhounds of broadway and blue plate special. you will love his stuff.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:24pm
Gaylord Fields:
@scott: It's also one of the rare Beach Boys songs from that era on which they played the instruments themselves. (Also, on the Tony Rivers version, I like the quote of the BBs' rivals, the Four Seasons, at the end!)

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:29pm
Gaylord Fields:
Original last line of JLL song: "If you find a turd in your toilet bowl/It'll be me/And I'll be lookin' for you"! Absolutely true!

Sat. 2/9/13 12:29pm
G:
About a foot in Central Brooklyn. Very windy and in drifts now, hard to be exact to the inch. I hear places in Connecticut were close to 3 feet, and 75 miles east of here near the end of Long Island were 2 feet,

Sat. 2/9/13 12:37pm
G:
Denver Post was founded in very late 1800s by supporters of President Grover Cleveland, who was a conservative-ish pragmatic Democrat (he was the only Democrat president in the post-civil war era from the 1960s through Wilson in 1913).

For the record, Greeley was a Whig, and then a Republican when the northern anti-slavery pro-econ.-dvlpmt. Whigs kicked out the southern slavery Whigs and founded the Republicans in the early 1850s during the lead-up the the Civil War. Greeley ran the biggest Whig/Republican paper in NYC, the Tribune, which from the 1840s through the 60s was the most prestigious and influential paper certainly in the northern part of the US. The NY Times was an upstart rival that didn't get to be a big deal till it started printing government dispatches in full during World War I.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:48pm
Stevel:
Post founders were Fred Bonfils and HarryTammen. You see the Bonfils name on everything in Denver. Fred was a con man. Ran fake lotteries in small towns. (Had a shill as the winner, split the take.) But, the following wiki excerpt sets the tone pretty well.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:48pm
Stevel:
"In 1900, both Bonfils and Tammen were horsewhipped and hospitalized by a lawyer who disliked their yellow journalism. Bonfils took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal."

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:50pm
Stevel:
I love Timberline, especially because I was a newspaper photographer for two decades. The more things change...

Sat. 2/9/13 12:51pm
G:
At the time the Denver Post was started, the Dems were finally making a comeback nationally after being kind of tainted in the North due to the War.

Throughout the 19th century both parties gave money to back papers as a way of getting more leverage in a city or state. Big mining money in Colorado from the 1870s on meant Dems and Reps were fighting for the state via newspapers etc etc in the later 1800s...

Sat. 2/9/13 12:54pm
Gordon in Chapel Hill:
Great show as always. Thanks Michael! and xo to Gaylord...

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:56pm
Stevel:
Gary Lewis comment was hysterical! That was a really sharp drummer on that track.

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Sat. 2/9/13 12:56pm
glenn:
i kinda miss the days when you could just horsewhip somebody if you felt like it. then again, when was the last time anybody saw a horse whip outside of the kentucky derby?

Sat. 2/9/13 12:59pm
Dennis Diken:
might be Jim Keltner on GL&PB "Lies" - he's pictured on the cover of their "She's Just My Style" LP and played on some sides